bubulcus ibis

Cattle Egret. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Héron garde-bœufs - Bubulcus ibis - Cattle Egret

These normally drab looking egrets, all white with dull yellow bill and mostly black legs, become quite colorful during breeding season - turning on the yellow-orange feathers on the back and head, the legs can turn reddish, and the bill takes on a rainbow of yellow, orange, pink, and purple.

Cattle Egret. Image re-sized, cropped, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Cattle Egret

Cattle Egret. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

around horses on resort

Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Heavy crop. Image re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

don't get to see them much when they have this beautiful breeding feathers. hope you like it.

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis subsp. ibis) Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Saltmeadow Cordgrass (Spartina patens: Poaceae) wet prairie with scattered shrubs of Bigleaf Marsh-elder (Iva frutescens: Asteraceae).

I have my pc back - nothing to do with Windows 10, one of my two internal hard drives failed.

don't have many pictures of them in my gallery. hope you like it, thanks so much.

Bird Corral: These cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis subsp. ibis) appear to have their cows corralled plus watched carefully from above in the mesquite tree. South of Tivoli, Refugio County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Converted coastal prairie into tame pasture at ca...

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis subsp. ibis) Sexes similar. This breeding plumage egret was sitting in a large bamboo on a small island near the shore of Catie lake at Universidad Catie (Centro Agronmico Tropical de Investigacin y Enseanza) Turrialba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica at 638 m (2,093 ft)...

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis subsp. ibis) Photographed around Saxet Lake Park, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA. Open park setting around the lake with scattered mesquite at ca. 27 m (89 ft) elevation.

The egret colony at La Janda became one of the main attractions this last spring. Just a suggestion to fellow birders and photographers: please, stay in the car and don't linger to avoid disturbing the birds.

I took this photo of a flock of Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) preening themselves on a partly submerged tree in-front of a small herd of elephants on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe on the 15th of Feb 2013